analects noun, pl

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a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

On Culture

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  • digital personhood 1 Jul 2025 [marginalium] On the possibilities for secure digital personhood. I am fairly obsessed with this, but my first project on it isn’t very user-friendly. Nor...
  • is culture socially costly 30 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Risks and Social Costs of High Culture: High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the...
  • the personal and private nature of smartphones 25 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones: because smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, using them activat...
  • love is about betterment 24 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Love is about betterment. Love, in the ancient Greek world, is not about sacrifice but eudaemonia: Diotima shows Socrates that love is a ki...
  • caligula as an anti-ideology 19 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Was Caligula Depraved as Suetonius Would Have Him?: it is hard to resist the conclusion that, whatever kernel of truth they might have, the...
  • nature is nurture 18 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Adding to the point of Genetics is Nurture, this article suggests the same thing but the other way around. An environment is specified often...
  • what is centrism? 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] What Is Centrism? This is a mildy interesting critique of centrism as a political destination, and of the flaws in the Democratic approach t...
  • ai spiritual bliss attractor state (pdf) 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] AI spiritual bliss attractor state. Anthropic put one of its models (Claude 4 Opus) in a sandbox to chat to itself and: In 90-100% of inter...
  • does testosterone effect economic preferences? 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? This paper says no: Participants were randomly allocated to receive a single dose of either...
  • pitfalls of ai for information gathering 28 May 2025 [marginalium] Pitfalls of AI for information gathering. Nominally about openai’s Deep Research, but applicable to all: it excels at straightforward quest...
  • adhd tiktoks are not about adhd 1 May 2025 [marginalium] ADHD TikToks are not about ADHD: … in the top 100 #ADHD TikTok videos. Despite the videos’ immense popularity (collectively amassing nearly...
  • what's the deal with autism rates 1 May 2025 [marginalium] What’s the deal with autism rates. A good analysis of the rate increase in the US. I think you’ll find that the rate is not that surprising...
  • social media and moore's law 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Social Media and Moore’s Law. From Tyler Cowan, who is confusing me recently, but I still like his predictions. I have a draft article that...
  • welcome to the chaoscene 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Welcome to the Chaoscene: The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient c...
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...
  • does social media abstinence work 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Does social media abstinence work? The findings thus suggest that temporarily stepping away from social media may not be the most optimal a...
  • more lawless than you realise 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] It’s more lawless out there than you realise: I have been told that the section on insurance in the tax code is so complex that fewer peopl...
  • mortuary practice and grief 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Mortuary Practice And Grief In addition, researchers have shown that ritualization helps us to feel more in control of life events and they...
  • in the new beijing 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] In The New Beijing: Designed to accommodate five million people and to act as Beijing’s twin, Xiong’an is a city created from nothing. Thi...
  • the economics of despair 28 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Article on the health cost of the current economic malaise. US-centric, so you’d have to modify by satisfaction when doing the hypothetical...

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